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Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland

SC043009Registered charity from 15 March 2012
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Notes:
Previous name, Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland /Ealain is Cultar Traidiseanta Alba from 15/03/2012 to 16/05/2024
Charity Information:
Address Scottish Storytelling Centre
43-45 High Street
Edinburgh
Postcode EH1 1SR
Website www.tracscotland.org
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
2. The SCIO will operate as a charitable organisation and its purposes are: 2.1 To increase knowledge and understanding of Scotland's culture, traditions, languages and living heritage. 2.2 To advance the practice of the arts in Scotland by: 2.2.1 perpetuating, propagating and developing creative skills grounded in Scotland's cultural traditions of music, storytelling, dance, song and crafts, and their shared development. 2.2.2 widening access to these creative practices and skills across all sectors of Scottish society and all age groups. 2.3 To advance cultural heritage in Scotland by: 2.3.1 enabling individuals and communities to source, interpret and express their intangible or living heritage as a resource for the arts, lifelong learning, and community life and wellbeing. 2.3.2 fostering cultural exchange and understanding between diverse communities of place, culture, faith and language, and between such minority communities and Scottish society as a whole. 2.4 To increase international understanding of Scotland's living cultural traditions and artistic heritage.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland) is a co-operative network which champions our shared traditions of music, song, storytelling, dance, crafts, customs and local languages. TRACS brings together the Traditional Music Forum and the Scottish Storytelling Forum. Together we celebrate the local distinctiveness of Scotland’s places: our intangible cultural heritage (ICH). TRACS and the Forums provide a range of activities in traditional arts including festivals, workshops and training, along with advocacy for the sector, including as a UNESCO-accredited NGO for ICH, working across the country from its base at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 15 Mar 2012
Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh
Number of Staff: 8
Number of Charity Trustees: 8
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science"
Beneficiaries: "Children or young people", "Older People", "People with disabilities or health problems", "People with a particular ethnic or racial origin", "Other charities or voluntary bodies"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals", "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations", "It carries out activities or services itself"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2021 £853,495 £743,658 24 Dec 2021 Yes
31 Mar 2022 £746,440 £729,683 13 Dec 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £889,508 £800,617 19 Dec 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £694,627 £765,347 20 Dec 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £665,642 £750,475 18 Dec 2025 Yes Download
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green   . If an annual return is late, the box is red   .
Income and Expenditure:
Charity Trustees:
First Name Last Name
Heather Yule
Jacqueline Sim
Jen Anderson
Anne Martin
Pamela King
Allan Taylor
John Carnie
Daniel Serridge
Andrew Bachell
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